docashton271: I would rather people used necro as a crutch and enjoy the game and learn to boss than to never try . I believe people will get bored of using necro and eventually try the other combat styles which are by far more fun (and eventually more powerful anyway)

Darbrezius: the only reason I am still using necromancy is because every other style costs 5-10b before you can enter the boss room

PhatBoi6969: If you look at ease of getting combat gear for each style, necromancy basically gives you the whole armour up to t90 as long as you level up.

On the other hand, the 3 classic skills require you to kill high level bosses with ridiculous drop rates just to even get t80 or t90 gear.

This turns away new players who will instead constantly rely on mainly necromancy for 99% of pvm.

Hupihovi: IMO you got it a little bit backwards. I'm also someone who has just recently started RS3 back again and from my understanding T95 Necro doesn't really compare all that well with T95 Melee for example. Melee is way more powerful than Necro at higher tiers. What really bothers me is - why in the first place are all these codexies behind a paywall? A Quest or something you need to grind for makes much more sense, or at least have that possibility, but everything else is so money gated that it's insane. A shit ton of people have accumulated wealth over the years of playing this game so rare drops have gone down over the years, but that doesn't really translate to new comers at any point of the game, quite the opposite. Before you shoot me down with Money Making on RC, it's prices are only that high because not even the wealthiest players want to do it. One should not be forced to pay ~10b in all the codex and abilities(idk if that number is too low or high) just to match today's standards on what people have.

Shlippi: Necromancy has its place as the "learner" style for just about every boss. It's accessible, easy to understand, the command ghost boosts damage for everyone else in the encounter, and you have solid damage and sustain. Its a great way to learn bosses without the high entry cost of other styles.

That said, when you get into endgame PVM and want faster kills, you will need to use other styles. Melee and Ranged are able to output so much more damage than necromancy, it isn't even close. It's even more insane when you start hybridding the two to take advantage of the other style while one's ultimates are on cooldown.

The other styles have less survivability, and are more reliant on defensives and souls split combined with the high damage output. You have to be more intentional when it comes to staying alive, rather than getting healed like 1k every so often because of the ghost.

I think Necromancy is fine where it's at. It gives people a foot in the door to learn endgame content without a high barrier for entry, and allows them access to either the money-making methods to be able to afford the gear for other styles, or the ability to farm the gear yourself.

nlkhgfljknghnhgjknhl: necromancy doesnt require billions of gp to get into a boss room and get reasonable kill times...

Enormous_Rod: This video is 2 years to late buddy

l0ker507: I mainly use ranged but I occasionally swap to necro, magic&melee I only really use on slayer tasks weak to those styles

maximumeffort6049: IMO I think they did a great job with combat 2.0. They made it just easy enough to grasp and use efficiently and its just hard enough to use that it isn't boring. I was using necro nearly 100% of the time pre combat 2.0. Now I only use it at Rasial.

justinlovett3615: The important thing is though you can use necro without thinking, ultimately the other styles of used properly have MUUCH higher dps. Except for maybe mage atm I think has the worst dpm currently.

allenwilliams9356: im not sure its too overpowered because on the high end i still out damage necro users with just melee or nearly double them with melee range hybrid.. i think its in a good spot and people should do what they enjoy most

pcgamesf2p708: Brother you dont had to use other style just use what you like so theres no problem with necro i love necro im lvl 120 ,200m and still i use necro but im learnind how to use other styles cause i want 120 lvl so theres no problem with necro

SocialTransparency: Necromancy should be the target, not the outlier.

teddiers3863: melee is the most used combat style now.. no? I feel like Silence's survey does not capture majority of the player base

Argox-2170: Necromany is cheap and you will be able to efficiently so everything solo related.. But when it comes to high endgame content Necro camp is the botom of the ladder and frowned upon.

Pimpskiiii-b3r: Necro is the reason I have HM zuk kills

u3ururuhrjrjrj: everyone revo 's their whole action bar anyways so they're all nerfing themselves eitherway

excelsheet123: It's still just the easiest in all aspects

3b7clips: "ZAP" OOF" "P0W" "CRASH" ..sooooo cringe thanks God they brought back OSRS the king

erickchristensen746: Lol what are these armor sets? They look like a child drew them xD

Really ugly

Moothead2: Not in the current state but it's the reason everything else was buffed to hell and back and now PVM is a shell for what it was.

P4r4bo14: The sustain is what sets it apart.

ellescer: Yeah necromancy is incredibly OP in regard to ease of gearing and use, it also comes with two of the most OP abilities in the game; bone shield and darkness.

IMO bone shield was a huge mistake by Jagex.

Literally killed off an entire weapon slot item

Jun 10 2026

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